Mail Bags filled with flat beaten mosquitoes indicate that the huissteekmug in the city bites more often than in the countryside.
Sultry summer nights and days at the beach; The only two things we miss in winter. But one thing we mostly miss during the season: buzzing mosquitoes that keep you from your sleep and mosquito bites where you simply and should have to scratching. But though the winter has been introduced, covers a remarkable number of reports of nuisance mosquitoes. And especially city dwellers would be the Sjaak.
More than half of the mosquitoes buzzing around in a city, according to researchers at Wageningen UR in the so-called molustus type. These specimens are particularly targeted people and do not hibernate. This while most mosquitoes that found refuge in the countryside have a preference for bird blood and sleep well through the winter.
The researchers came to these results through Muggenradar.nl. This website encourages people to report mosquito nuisance and beaten to death mosquitoes to send for analysis. Between 2014 and 2015 no less than 3500 copies were mailed. Nice detail: after a while you get to hear what you have sent mosquito
In addition to the website, the researchers also want to make an app Mosquito Radar.. They collect money at this time in order to really make this app. Be the crowdfunding campaign support here
Source:. Nature Today
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